YoshikiCharity Work, Events and Causes

Through Yoshiki Foundation America, YOSHIKI has supported many humanitarian causes across the globe, including:

In 2011, YOSHIKI donated 11 million yen to support victims of the Great East Japan earthquake.

That same year, his band X JAPAN donated all performance fees from their festival appearances to the Tohoku earthquake support efforts. In 2015, X JAPAN donated 28 million yen to the earthquake reconstruction of Ishinomaki.

In 2016, YOSHIKI donated an additional 6 million yen to earthquake disaster reconstruction in Japan. YOSHIKI also donated 10 million yen to the victims of the Kumamoto earthquakes and gave $100,000 to the victims of Hurricane Harvey in Texas through the Recording Academy’s charity foundation MusiCares.

In 2018, he donated 10 million yen to the reconstruction effort after massive flooding in Japan and 10 million yen to victims of the Eastern Iburi earthquake.

In 2019, YOSHIKI donated $150,000 to the University of Miami’s Frost School of Music to support music education and 10 million yen in support of the victims and survivors of the Kyoto Animation fire.

YOSHIKI’s ongoing charity work includes supporting the Japanese Red Cross, the Make A Wish Foundation, the Points of Light Foundation, the Grammy Foundation, and multiple other organizations.

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Yoshiki — internationally renowned, composer, classically-trained pianist, rock drummer and leader of the rock group X JAPAN—has announced his support for Earth Alliance and its Amazon Forest Fund.
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